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Good Rain (90 Edition) by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Planning a New West: The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Culture and Environment in the Pacific West) by Carl Abbott Publisher Comments A comprehensive study of the first national scenic area that examines the origins and impact of this bold experiment in environmental planning.... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Bend Overall by Scott Cook Publisher Comments Includes hikes, museums, resorts and tourist attractions although it leaves out commercial endeavors unless they are one-of-a-kind More than anything it attempts to honor and showcase the variety and diversity of attractions and landscapes surrounding... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon by Chuck Palahniuk From Powells.com "Fugitives and Refugees is more than a book about the weird people and dark corners of Portland. Tucked surreptitiously between chapters are eleven 'postcards,' which, cobbled together, make up a sort of memoir of Palahniuk's years in his adopted city... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City by Phil Stanford Publisher Comments From a Portland Tribune columnist comes Portland Confidential, the story of Big Jim Elkins, a conman and criminal who arrived in Portland in 1937 and helped unleash prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, and drug running.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean Publisher Comments On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone by John Daniel Publisher Comments In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the final results had been handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a remote location in Oregon's Rogue River Canyon, and quit civilization. The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, the Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan Publisher Comments A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eat Shop Portland 5TH Edition by Kaie Wellman Publisher Comments The eat.shop guides are unique as they focus on just, yes, eating and shopping. Whether you are traveling to a city for the first time or you're a local — these guides are a must have for those who want to know about the interesting, the eclectic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ramona the Pest (Ramona Quimby) by Beverly Cleary Publisher Comments Ramona is off to kindergarten, and it's the greatest day of her life. So why is she sitting on the bench while the rest of the students play the game gray duck? Laughs and minor upsets abound in an enormously popular story starring the one and only... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gentle Ben by Walt Morey Publisher Comments The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his older brother, Jamie. But in time Mark finds someone else to love--Ben, an Alaskan brown bear so huge that no one else dares come near him. Gentle Ben has been... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sea Runners by Ivan Doig Publisher Comments In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar's empire, many of the laborers were indentured servants — seven-year men no better off than slaves. In New Archangel, now Sitka, four of them, all Scandinavians, stole a canoe and pointed it south toward... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Road Biking Oregon (Road Biking) by Falcon Guide Publisher Comments From the rocky promontories and wide sandy beaches of the coast to the heights of Mount Hood and the Three Sisters, enjoy the dramatic diversity of Oregon on two wheels. Grab this guidebook, put on your helmet, and hit the road on forty carefully... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir) by Kevin Sampsell Staff Pick There are a million stories in the naked city. Portland Noir collects 16 of them. The contributor list is amazing: Karen Karbo, Monica Drake, Floyd Skloot, and more. Editor Kevin Sampsell does a great job of setting the stage for the wealth of narrative... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Portland Hill Walks: Twenty Explorations in Parks and Neighborhoods by Laura O. Foster Publisher Comments Portland Hill Walks is no ordinary guidebook. No restaurant ratings, no rehashed explanations of how the city got its name. Instead, in twenty meandering, view-studded strolls from forested canyons to cityscape peaks, this lively travelogue answers... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Honey in the Horn by H L Davis Publisher Comments In this epic work by award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist H.L. Davis, the virtues of the frontier live again in the lives and characters of Oregon settlers during the homesteading period from 1906-1908.<P> Winner of the 1936 Pulitzer Prize... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson Synopsis A phenomenal West Coast bestseller, winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and an Abby Award nominee, this enthralling novel is at once a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, the story of a doomed love affair, and a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (92 Edition) by Raymond Carver Publisher Comments With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Holding Fast: The Untold Story of the Mount Hood Tragedy by Karen Oddy James Publisher Comments A journey of adventure, tragedy, love, and loss on the summit of Mt. Hood. In December 2006, millions of people across the world prayed and waited in anguish to learn the fate of 3 climbers trapped on Mt. Hood. The worst storm in the last decade was... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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